Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Metropolitan Museum Art Collection Russian Imperial Red Medium Point Fountain Pen




Metropolitan Museum Art Collection Russian Imperial Red Medium Point Fountain Pen


Metropolitan Museum Art Collection Russian Imperial Red Medium Point Fountain Pen


Peter Carl Faberge (Russian 1846 1920) was only twenty-six years old when he took over his fathers jewelry business in St. Petersburg Russia in 1872. Faberges workshops produced a wide variety of objets? dart including magnificent jewelry clocks enamel cigarette cases boxes and frames. Faberge was the worlds greatest master of guilloche enameling a time-intensive technique in which polychrome enamel is layered over circular straight or wave patterns engraved on metal. The enamel is translucent allowing light to penetrate and reflect off the metal which shimmers as light ... Read more


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